What is a Google Spider?

[Swaggs]

Saw this while looking at the Currently Active Users: 03:16 PM Google Spider Viewing User Profile

Any ideas what it is?

[Router Help]

A spider is the name of the program the search engines use to crawl the web and index new pages. I don't know why it would show up in the online users list unless someone registered an account with that name.

[JeeberD]

Nope, it's not a user name...

[Swaggs]

I don't think it was a registered account. It was lumped in with the "guests" and you couldn't click on it, like you can one of the other members' names.

[Router Help]

Apparently this is a new feature of vbulletin 3.0: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76662&highlight=google+spider

[VPI97]

It's a spider with 8.0 × 10<SUP>100 </SUP> legs.

[sovereignstar]

I see them all of the time at another board that I frequent.